PDGFA

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Platelet-derived growth factor alpha polypeptide

Identifiers

PDGFA; PDGF-A; PDGF1

External IDs

OMIM: 173430 MGI: 97527 HomoloGene: 32055

Gene ontology
Molecular Function:	• platelet-derived growth factor receptor binding • growth factor activity
Cellular Component:	• extracellular space • microvillus • membrane
Biological Process:	• regulation of progression through cell cycle • angiogenesis • cell surface receptor linked signal transduction • cell-cell signaling • cell proliferation • positive regulation of cell proliferation • organ morphogenesis • cell projection biogenesis • actin cytoskeleton organization and biogenesis • alveolus development • regulation of peptidyl-tyrosine phosphorylation

RNA expression pattern

More reference expression data

Orthologs

Human

Mouse

Refseq

XM_001126441 (mRNA)
XP_001126441 (protein)

NM_008808 (mRNA)
NP_032834 (protein)

Location

Chr 7: 0.5 - 0.53 Mb

Chr 5: 139.23 - 139.25 Mb

Pubmed search

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Platelet-derived growth factor alpha polypeptide, also known as PDGFA, is a human gene.

The protein encoded by this gene is a member of the platelet-derived growth factor family. The four members of this family are mitogenic factors for cells of mesenchymal origin and are characterized by a motif of eight cysteines. This gene product can exist either as a homodimer or as a heterodimer with the platelet-derived growth factor beta polypeptide, where the dimers are connected by disulfide bonds. Studies using knockout mice have shown cellular defects in oligodendrocytes, alveolar smooth muscle cells, and Leydig cells in the testis; knockout mice die either as embryos or shortly after birth. Two splice variants have been identified for this gene.^[1]

[edit] References

^ Entrez Gene: PDGFA platelet-derived growth factor alpha polypeptide.

[edit] Further reading

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Hoppe J, Schumacher L, Eichner W, Weich HA (1987). "The long 3'-untranslated regions of the PDGF-A and -B mRNAs are only distantly related.". FEBS Lett. 223 (2): 243–6. PMID 3666150.
Betsholtz C, Johnsson A, Heldin CH, et al. (1986). "cDNA sequence and chromosomal localization of human platelet-derived growth factor A-chain and its expression in tumour cell lines.". Nature 320 (6064): 695–9. doi:10.1038/320695a0. PMID 3754619.
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